Word: coopered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This was a fair estimate of the golden lure that had led so many high-salaried (and high-taxed) stars-e.g., Gary Cooper, Paulette Goddard, Bing Crosby-into the ranks of the independents...
...three deep in talent at most positions, and had a grade-A pitching staff of 26. Somebody had to go to get the roster down to the June 15 30-player maximum. Boss Sam Breadon could not resist the $175,000 that the Giants offered for Catcher Walker Cooper. Infielder Emil Verban and Outfielder Johnny Hopp were sold to the Phillies and the Braves. Ace Pitchers Max Lanier (who had won his first six starts for the Cards) and Fred Martin went of their own accord to Mexico...
...rebuilding the agency fell in 1921 to a dynamic, Polish-born Old Bolshevik named Jacob Doletsky. Doletsky worked out news-exchange deals with A.P Boss Kent Cooper and U.P. President Karl Bickel. (A.P. and U.P. give Tass their own U.S. news reports in return for Tass coverage of Russia...
...Trick. In Lubbock, Tex., after searchers spent 24 hours vainly dragging a lake for drowned Roosevelt Bailey's body, Negro Leroy Cooper offered to "conjure it up with the 'hat method.' " He tossed the dead man's hat into the water, where it drifted 50 feet, then sank like a rock directly on the body...
Houston Peterson, head of Manhattan's Cooper Union forum and onetime Rutgers philosophy professor, served up this judgment in a unique anthology: Great Teachers, Portrayed by Those Who Studied under Them (Rutgers University Press, $3.50). Its 22 essays ranged from a profile of Anne Mansfield Sullivan by her only pupil, Helen Keller, to impressions of Ralph Waldo Emerson by James Russell Lowell...